{"id":625409,"date":"2026-02-26T05:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625409\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:26:30","slug":"rockets-rout-kings-128-97-behind-big-nights-from-sheppard-sengun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625409\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets rout Kings 128-97 behind big nights from Sheppard, Sengun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reed Sheppard made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 28 points, Alperen Sengun had 26 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Houston Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 128-97 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant added 21 points for the Rockets in their most-lopsided victory of the season. Houston has won two in row since blowing an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter at New York on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Westbrook scored 22 points for Sacramento, but 17 came in the first quarter. DeMar DeRozan added 15 on a night he moved ahead of Paul Pierce into 20th place on the NBA&#8217;s career scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings were coming off a victory over Memphis that snapped their franchise-record 16-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Westbrook was 8 for 14 in the first quarter, with his 17 points his most in a first quarter since getting that many against Utah on Feb. 9, 2020. But the rest of the Kings were 1 for 10 and Houston led 33-22. The Rockets then outscored the Kings 44-28 in the second, going 8 for 12 from 3-point range, to lead 77-50 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Sengun had his third triple-double of the season and 11th of his career. Houston shot 54.7% from the field and hit 17 of its first 30 shots. <\/p>\n<p>The Rockets led by 36 points in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The Kings lost starting forward Keegan Murray to a left ankle injury in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Kings: At Dallas on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets: At Orlando on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reed Sheppard made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 28 points, Alperen Sengun had 26 points, 13 rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,292,194,938,6,2078,254,477,66],"class_list":["post-625409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-paul-pierce","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116135277530767862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}